2024 Clinician Academy
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April 1 - May 17
Location
Downunder Horsemanship Ranch
Farmington,
AR
Fundamentals with Phoenix
Fundamentals with Phoenix
May 15, 2020
Fundamentals With Phoenix: How to Train Your Human
Lesson 7: Summon Your Inner Energizer Bunny This week’s lesson is all about the dreaded L word – L-U-N-G-E – as in your human forcing you to trot or lope endless circles for 30 minutes straight while they continuously crack the air behind you with a lunge whip and cluck every 15 seconds. The never-ending […]
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Fundamentals with Phoenix
May 9, 2020
Fundamentals With Phoenix: How to Train Your Human
Lesson 6: You’re in charge. Prove it. Need a quick plan of attack to derail your human’s efforts?
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Fundamentals with Phoenix
May 1, 2020
Fundamentals With Phoenix: How to Train Your Human
Lesson 5: Intimidation is Your Friend Whenever you find yourself around humans, imagine that there’s a four-foot circle drawn around you. For a lack of a better term, we’ll refer to it as our personal hula hoop space (I may have heard that somewhere before?). It’s like an invisible electric fence designed to keep your […]
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Fundamentals with Phoenix
April 24, 2020
Fundamentals With Phoenix: How to Train Your Human
Lesson 4: Baby Got Back Quarter Horse, Thoroughbred, Mustang, Akhal-Teke, Spotted Saddle Horse … no matter our breeding, we all of share the same super power and when it’s fully locked into position, it’s an unmatched force for a human. I’m talking about our hindquarters. It’s where all of our power comes from, and we […]
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Fundamentals with Phoenix
April 17, 2020
Fundamentals With Phoenix: How to Train Your Human
Lesson 3: Heart Attacks Are Free, So Give Your Human One This week’s lesson builds off last week’s spooking tutorial, but we’re going to dive deeper into the human psyche and really screw with their minds. This little trick will require finesse and impeccable timing on your part, but when executed correctly is well worth […]
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Fundamentals with Phoenix
April 10, 2020
Fundamentals With Phoenix: How to Train Your Human
Lesson 2: Get Good at Spooking, Like Olympic-Level Good Dream of a life in which you lounge in the pasture all day and the only human interaction you face is when your two-legged servant chucks some grain or hay at you? It can be a reality if you make your human believe you’re half crazy. […]
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Fundamentals with Phoenix
April 3, 2020
Fundamentals With Phoenix: How to Train Your Human
Lesson 1: Don’t Let Them Catch You I don’t care if you’re training for the Kentucky Derby or giving pony rides at the county fair (the horror!), all of us horses want the same thing – to have our human wrapped around our hooves. The first rule of total dominance over your human is if […]
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